Chamber and committees

Information on the number of new cases of mouth cancer by year of diagnosis and by (a) NHS board and (b) age group is published on ISD’s website under the cancer statistics topic area via this link:

https://isdscotland.scot.nhs.uk/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/2013-04-30/i_cancer_head_neck.xls).

The oil and gas industry provides employment for 440,000 people across the whole of the UK, with 45% of the jobs based here in Scotland. Oil and Gas UK’s Demographic report, revised last year, states that off the majority of offshore workers, just over half, live in Scotland; 25% of the total workforce lives in the north-east of Scotland, with significant numbers living on the east coast and across the central belt.

The Scottish Government is committed to supporting integration of health and social care and will be providing transition funding to NHS boards and local authorities to support establishment of their integration authorities for 2014-15. The resources available will be around £7 million. Each partnership will be asked to submit a transitional/organisational development plan for the establishment of the new integrated arrangements and will receive appropriate support to implement their jointly agreed transition plan.

This is a matter for local authorities. The information requested is not held centrally.

This is a matter for the statutory purchasers of care, namely local authorities and NHS boards. Where people feel they are being wrongly charged for care they should raise it with the relevant local bodies.

CEL 6 (2008), guidance on NHS Continuing Healthcare, covers the responsibilities of the NHS in Scotland for providing continuing health care services. The guidance is relevant to local authorities but is for NHS boards to implement.

The information requested is not held centrally.

This is a matter for local authorities. The information requested is not held centrally.

Any violence or aggression against NHSScotland staff is unacceptable and we have policies in place to provide and continuously improve a safe working environment. We encourage NHSScotland organisations to commit to supporting criminal proceedings against anyone who assaults a staff member.

The following table gives the information on the number of patients with a recorded diagnosis of obesity that have had bariatric surgery procedures undertaken, by NHS board of residence each year since 1999 to 2012. Except those noted with a *, were values have been suppressed in accordance with the Information Services Division Disclosure Policy.